How Deep Is Your Commitment To Trust?

Trust is nothing other than yourself...

We live life thinking we’re in control.

We control what we eat, what we watch, what we read, what we say (for the most part),…

What does it look like for you to fully trust: yourself, someone, life itself?

I feel like the universe is rearranging itself right now, and I feel like we have a choice: to live blocked by fear or to live with trust. To allow fear and control to keep us contained or to expand into love and allow ourselves to go beyond the previously set borders of what is “possible”.

The world is our canvas and collectively we can choose what we fill it with. Your thoughts create your reality. What are your thoughts filled with? Fear of things “not working out” what if that very thought was exactly creating this “not working out”?

I’m not going to give you a guide to manifesting your dream life (like I did on my third Substack article here), because I feel it’s too “controlled”. Most times it feels as if it’s coming from the mind, and of course our thoughts create our reality but when we sit down and write our manifestation from this place we often let our ego and fears create what it is we envision. When our heart is truly the one visualising our vision of the future, then it is a lot more free of limitations (from conditioning amongst others) and authentic.

Accessing The Heart’s DREAMS

So, although I can share with you a quick meditation on how to anchor into the heart and a 14-day programme to cultivate this connection with the heart and actually access your heart’s dreams on day 14.

I would say that first and foremost we need to cultivate trust.

Defining TRUST for YOU

What does “trust” actually mean and how does it feel?

The word traust comes from Old Norse and means “help, confidence, protection, support”. The ultimate root is deru, which is also the source of words like "true," "tree," and "tryst," highlighting the connection to firmness and steadfastness.

The inner chatter of mis-trust

If you’ve ever bungee jumped or sky dived (I’ve done neither yet) or done something that scared you (such as speaking in public) but went ahead anyway you may have been faced with this fear, this ego led thought in the mind that says “don’t do it” “what if you die” “you’ll fail” “You’ll hurt yourself”.

Don’t get me wrong, there is nothing inherently wrong with these thoughts. They are here to keep us alive, to keep us safe. And discerning when the thought is coming from a place of care or compromising our potential expansion is key.

Again there is something to be said about being content with the way things are, and appreciating that things always change, with or without our doing.

TRUST vs. HOPE

But the point I’m making here is how do you TRUST? Especially when external conditions are so mutable, there is so much uncertainty and change around that it’s becoming more and more difficult to truly connect to this “stability”.

Most of us use the word “hope” a lot. As if we left it to something external to us for things to turn out in one way or another. But in reality, if I say “I hope” I personally fell it can be disempowering. “I hope it will work out”. What does “working out” even mean right?

Interestingly, “hope” comes from Old English word "hopian," which meant "to expect, wish, or look forward to" in its Germanic root it relates to “confident expectation” or “anticipation”. To me when I hear hope I often see the pattern of “I’m keeping things the same but I hope it will change”. And of course no change happens. It’s not always. I hope the weather’s nice tomorrow. Ok, there we may not have that much impact on it. And still, I actually believe we can impact things such as the weather or at least its perception of it.

Trust is our own responsibility.

We often say “trust the universe”, “trust life”. In the end maybe it’s about “trusting oneself”. Our life is a succession of triggers leading to thoughts, leading to actions, leading to results. So yes there are external parameters that help us or “slow us down”. But in the end we are the masters of our own life. So… do you truly and deeply trust yourself?

How To Cultivate Self-Trust

• Sit down and practice a few breaths, anchor from the sky into the Earth, and return to your center, you may use your heartbeat as an anchor. Bring in the word trust and observe what comes up.

• Does a part of you have difficulties trusting yourself? Another idea would be to give space for the part of you that doesn’t trust you to be witnessed. What does this part of you need that you can provide for them to trust you?

• You may finish with a mirror practice, looking into your own eyes and saying out loud with conviction “I trust you”.

• Here’s a moment of inner connection for Trust.

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